International dimensions of U.S. economic policy in the 1980s

Monetary policy - United States ; Foreign exchange rates ; International trade ; Fiscal policy

Regional effects of the thrift bailout

Regional economics ; Savings and loan associations

Can bank capital regulation work? research revisited

Bank capital ; Risk ; Bank supervision

Assessing bank antitrust standards

Bank mergers ; Antitrust law ; Bank competition ; Crocker National Corporation ; Wells Fargo Bank

FDIC's modified payout plan

Deposit insurance ; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ; Bank failures

Market responses to Continental Illinois

Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Company of Chicago ; Bank failures

Capital regulation and bank lending

Bank regulation in general and capital regulation in particular are widely perceived as having become stiffer in the 1990s. The stiffer regulatory environment in turn is argued to have curtailed bank lending. This article determines the extent to which capital standards changed in the 1990s and examines the relationship between capital positions and the bank lending. The empirical results suggest that capital standards did increase in the 1990s. The analysis also shows that bank loan growth rates are positively related to capital-to-assets ratios. Moreover, sensitivity of bank lending to capital positions appears to have increased in the 1990s. Regionally, capital regulation likely had the most pronounced. effect on bank lending in New England.Bank supervision ; Bank capital ; Bank loans

New limits for the New Year

Money market deposit account ; Bank deposits ; Interest ; NOW accounts ; Interest rates

Corporate debt

Financial leverage ; Debt ; Corporations - Finance ; Tax Reform Act of 1986 ; Taxation